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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The Navy asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to block a court order that prevents it from using active sonar during its war-game exercises off Hawaii, an environmental group said.The emergency motion, filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, seeks a stay on an order stopping the Navy from using the high-intensity sonar, said Daniel Hinerfeld, spokesman for the National Resources Defense Council.The Navy was forced to abandon plans to use...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the Navy from using a type of sonar, allegedly harmful to marine mammals, during a Pacific warfare exercise scheduled to begin this week. The order comes three days after the Navy obtained a six-month national defense exemption from the Defense Department allowing it to use "mid-frequency active sonar." Environmental groups had sued to stop the sonar use during the exercises off Hawaii. The sonar...
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese warship equipped with a high-tech radar tracking system has been ordered home early from naval exercises because of fears that North Korea plans to launch a ballistic missile, Kyodo news agency said on Thursday. The destroyer Kirishima, one of four Japanese ships that boasts Aegis tracking equipment, set out for home on Wednesday from Hawaii, where it had been taking part in U.S.-led exercises including a missile interception test, Kyodo said. It had been...
HONOLULU -- The Navy's use of sonar during maritime exercises may have contributed to the mass stranding of more than 150 whales in Hawaii's Hanalei Bay two years ago, government scientists said.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the finding - along with information from other studies - has led it to ask the Navy to reduce its sonar's power during exercises planned this summer in Hawaiian waters. It also asked the Navy to turn off its active sonar when the whales come...
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues.By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish.Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree...
HONOLULU -- Rain falling on the surface of the ocean can be heard more than a mile deep, and at some frequencies it's louder than passing ships, according to oceanographer Jeff Nystuen. Nystuen, of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, is one among scientists studying how sound travels through the ocean, to better understand how loud, man-made noises might affect marine creatures. "We don't really know what is too loud underwater, and we need to know what the...
Please read in first paragraph ... oceans are a new factor among many threatening ... instead of ... are threatening ... A corrected story follows: By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI (Reuters) - Naval maneuvers and submarine sonars in oceans are a new factor among many threatening dolphins, whales and porpoises that depend on sound to survive, the United Nations and marine experts said on Wednesday. A U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) report included underwater sonar and military maneuvers as the...
By Nita BhallaNAIROBI (Reuters) - Naval maneuvers and submarine sonars in oceans are a new factor among many threatening dolphins, whales and porpoises that depend on sound to survive, the United Nations and marine experts said on Wednesday.A U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) report included underwater sonar and military maneuvers as the smallest factor on a list of major threats to some 71 types of small marine mammals, known as cetaceans, at risk."While we know about other threats such...
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups sued the U.S. Navy on Wednesday over the use of sonar, saying that the ear-splitting sounds can cause mass whale and dolphin strandings and internal bleeding. The Natural Defense Resources Council, or NRDC, leading the coalition, said in a federal lawsuit that sonar used in routine training and testing violated environmental laws. It accused the Navy of failing to take precautions that could spare marine...
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups sued the U.S. Navy on Wednesday over the use of sonar, saying that the ear-splitting sounds can cause mass whale and dolphin strandings and internal bleeding. The Natural Defense Resources Council, or NRDC, leading the coalition, said in a federal lawsuit that sonar used in routine training and testing violated environmental laws. It accused the Navy of failing to take precautions that could spare marine...
